He's doing this to raise money for research. I don't think he expects to solve it 'live on TV infront of a studio audience'. It's more like an opportunity for others to be educated about the Riemann hypothesis.

Now all Java devs will be able to afford a yacht like Larry's after customers fork out for the non-crippleware version of the jvm.

Oh and Dragon Age from Bioware has heaps of content for single player. It's the best single player experience I've had in ages.

Duke Nukem Forver will have loads of content after 12 years in development.

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton. The corollary is there is no such thing as a self-made man.

Yeah I've been working on with open source dev tools in the network appliance domain for several years now but I've come to think that .NET is one of the things that MS did right. Thankfully I haven't been working with Java but c/c++ and python and bash. Java wasn't originally open source and was a poorly designed language that got lots of marketing impetus from Sun, hence it's widespread adoption. You end up with code the calls the AbstractObjectFactory that calls the AbstractAbstractObjectFactory etc and a whole lot of objects that you don't need. At least with C++ you can choose not to use objects and simplify. Same with Python.

Management that requires me print out a timesheet in from excel and then get it printed and signed then I scan the signed document and email it to the appropriate people.

Evidence based estimating is what I'd like to see more of and less of the abracadabra 'story points' rubbish that SCRUM practitioners advocated. At a previous organization we went down the SCRUM road and were told to use story points where a story point is a unit of effort (not time) required to do the task. Naturally all the devs were confused and eventually resorted to equating a story point with a unit of time (like an hour) and not a unit of effort as we were supposed to. There's also the problem were one dev's estimate of say 4 story points is not the same as another dev's estimate of 4 story points. There was never a consensus as to what a 'unit of effort' meant unless it was taken to be equivalent to a unit of time. Evidence based estimating seems to provide a better solution since it tracks the history of an individual dev's estimates, recognising the fact that an individuals estimate will differ from another. So for example if someone has a habit of underestimating a task, because of the feedback that goes into the system after the task is done, the system caters for this when that person makes another estimate.

Yay ... now all I need is a farting cow, a playground for the kids and a swamp in my backyard and I'll have enough juice to run my linux desktop. Seriously this kids going to turn into one of those bosses with all the fancy ideas of how things should work, then try and convince other people to do the work for him, and no skills to make anything.

Except it has this ability to leave trailing whitespace on the end of lines, can't do buffer local settings (i.e. can't set different a different value for tabstops depending on the file), and the last time I saw someone use it he would tap the space bar several times to indent because Geany's tabs to space conversion was broken and I don't even think it's configurable via some sort of script language. I don't really understand why people don't use one of the more established editors like emacs or vim. If you learn how to use one of those well then you're not going to regret it, but with something like Geany you'll eventually run into problems that these serious editors would already have encountered and solved.

That's a daft argument. You could extend that to say an ethernet frame and say 'oh because ethernet frames are broken up they can't be used to distribute copyrighted data'. Similar argument for reading writing blocks to disk etc... It's pretty obvious bittorent can be used to transmit information copyrighted or not. Their defense should focus on the accuracy identifying weather the information transmitted is copyrighted or not, since people do use bittorrent for legitimate reasons. ISP's probably want to win this case because they are aware of the enormous amount of traffic bittorrent generates, most of it being movies, mp3s etc... Forcing them to curtail this will hurt their revenue. The other side of the coin is that people that create music, movies, software are entitled to license it however they want. If they give it away for free good for you but if they copyright it and require payment for it then that doesn't mean you can just take it from them.

You're not old - your slashdot id is greater than 1 000 000

Why worry if a black hole eats the planet? It will kill everyone and no one will be around to care.